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zubiaur commented on 95% of generative AI pilots at companies are failing – MIT report   fortune.com/2025/08/18/mi... · Posted by u/amirkabbara
simianwords · 8 days ago
I completely agree. These are useful in fuzzy cases but we live in a fuzzy world. Most things are fuzzy and nothing is completely true or completely false.

If I as a human deploy code, it is not certain that it necessarily works - just like with LLMs. The extent is different however.

zubiaur · 7 days ago
100% where we are having a lot of success is in processes that required somewhat repeatable fuzzy processing, which before could only be performed by people.

Cool thing is that, since LLMs are comparatively cheap, I can afford to run the same process a few times, to get a sense of confidence of the response.

In our latest project, the client expressed that our AI aided process was 11 times faster, and much more accurate than their previous process.

zubiaur commented on Claude says “You're absolutely right!” about everything   github.com/anthropics/cla... · Posted by u/pr337h4m
elif · 13 days ago
I've spent a lot of time trying to get LLM to generate things in a specific way, the biggest take away I have is, if you tell it "don't do xyz" it will always have in the back of its mind "do xyz" and any chance it gets it will take to "do xyz"

When working on art projects, my trick is to specifically give all feedback constructively, carefully avoiding framing things in terms of the inverse or parts to remove.

zubiaur · 12 days ago
Funnily enough, that is true also for giving instructions to kids. And also why kid's media is so frustrating. So many shows and books focus first on the maladjusted behavior, with the character learning not to the-bad-thing at the very end.

Don't instruct kids, nor LLMs via negativa.

zubiaur commented on A CT scanner reveals surprises inside the 386 processor's ceramic package   righto.com/2025/08/intel-... · Posted by u/robin_reala
bartread · 16 days ago
> some unnamed AGP video card

Do you mean VGA rather than AGP? AGP came much later than the 386 and wouldn’t have been supported by its motherboard chipsets.

zubiaur · 16 days ago
ISA slot, likely.
zubiaur commented on Telo MT1   telotrucks.com/... · Posted by u/turtleyacht
photios · 24 days ago
Man, this car is ugly. I'm getting strong Fiat Multipla vibes:

https://www.motorbiscuit.com/remembering-fiat-multipla-quite...

zubiaur · 23 days ago
They have a very strange presence. They are quite wide. All the proportions are odd. It catches one’s eye. I uggly-puppy like it.
zubiaur commented on Anaconda Raises $150M Series C   anaconda.com/press/anacon... · Posted by u/diverted247
gonzalohm · a month ago
How are they going to find out though?
zubiaur · a month ago
They have a form where they ask for an email before giving the download link. My guess is that + a bit of telemetry.
zubiaur commented on Anaconda Raises $150M Series C   anaconda.com/press/anacon... · Posted by u/diverted247
specproc · a month ago
Where's Anaconda at these days? I've not touched it since starting out with Python and don't think I've touched it since discovering other package managers.

Anyone here using it regularly in 2025, is there anything I'm missing out on?

zubiaur · a month ago
Everywhere where they may be a shadow data science team. And that's how they get you. One has to be very careful to install the Open Source portions. They make no effort to make the boundary obvious. If one does not, IT will get a call asking for licensing money.
zubiaur commented on Mini robots detect and fix water pipe leaks without digging   foxnews.com/tech/mini-rob... · Posted by u/Bluestein
zubiaur · 2 months ago
In oil and gas they have "smart pigs", which have all sorts of sensors to detect issues with pipelines.

These look much simpler, which is OK if the stakes are much lower.

zubiaur commented on Thoughts on Asunción, Paraguay   cpsi.media/p/thoughts-on-... · Posted by u/Michelangelo11
zubiaur · 2 months ago
As a teenager, I backpacked around Latin America with some friends. Due to some issues in Bolivia, we ended up taking the long way to Brazil, through Paraguay.

The contrast was stark. We crossed the border and changed buses. Instead of a truck converted into a bus, with rain leaking through the roof, we had a decent Marcopolo with AC. Instead of a dirt road, there was pavement.

We arrived in Asunción late at night and grabbed a hotel not too far from the bus station. The woman at the front desk treated us like crap. So rude. We were exhausted and honestly didn’t care much, but man, I still remember that lady’s butt face. But then we handed over our burgundy passports.

Her face changed; from what seemed like barely contained rage to instant guilt. “I’m so, so, so sorry, I thought you were Argentinean. I didn’t know.” She showed us the rooms and even had someone help us with our bags.

Seems like the War of the Triple Alliance is still a source of hurt.

We didn’t stay long in Asunción; we took the bus to Iguazú the next morning. The little we saw, we liked. It seemed to be moving in a better direction than La Paz, Bolivia. And while still a bit underdeveloped, it felt like a nice, welcoming city. Unless, of course, you happened to be Argentinean.

zubiaur commented on I convinced HP's board to buy Palm and watched them kill it   philmckinney.substack.com... · Posted by u/AndrewDucker
knuckleheadsmif · 2 months ago
I was at Palm when launched working on the device end user software startup experience. The software I think was ready but the hardware was far inferior to the current iPad at the time. However it’s possible that the next iteration could have been more competitive, they just had to stick with it. But neither the hardware or software mattered because it was the CEO who killed it through poor long term judgement As the author noted.

[I remember sitting in meetings where HP seemed proud to be selling more and more PC at below their manufacturing costs. They raced to the bottom and were happy they were gaining market share in the race to the bottom.]

zubiaur · 2 months ago
They were learning. The pre 2 was so much better than the original.

WebOS felt much more polished than Android was at the time.

The app ecosystem was lacking, but the tooling seemed to be constantly improving.

Having had palms since pOS 3, it was sad, but not foreign, to see them struggle.

zubiaur commented on Time saved by AI offset by new work created, study suggests   arstechnica.com/ai/2025/0... · Posted by u/amichail
zubiaur · 4 months ago
Thats called a productivity increase. Finally. We were due for one.

u/zubiaur

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